UK banking litigation: Tale of the tape

This article has been published by Commercial Dispute Resolution (CDR) on 05 March 2018.

A panel of expert lawyers consider the most significant headline trends in banking litigation cases before the UK courts in 2017, whether for retail or investment banks.

For Richard Bunce, a partner at Simmons & Simmons in London, “the volume of banking litigation cases is holding up fairly well, and ticking over nicely at pre-financial crisis levels”, he notes, “notwithstanding that the cases cover a diverse range of issues, rather than being themed by reference to generic industry-wide phenomena”.